Coming from an affluent background where everything was provided for, I usually took the basics of life as a guarantee. Deciding to be a social worker for me entailed dealing with paperwork and not interacting with the less fortunate or the destitute. I had this mental picture of helping many people, but these people did not involve the homeless, the disadvantaged or even the needy. Involving myself in community initiatives away from my comfort zone opened my understanding of what it entails to lacking. During that period, my parents got divorced, and my cushion of wealth disappeared, and I started to relate to lacking. God was preparing me to a life I knew nothing about, a life of lack and one that involved dealing with the less fortunate. Through my situation, today I am more accommodating of the less fortunate, and it has changed my perception of what it entails being a social worker and to helping other people.
The involvement with families, individuals, groups and communities in trying to help them enhance their social and health functioning, has allowed me to be like the Good Samaritan. Performing social work is filled with ethical blots that are complicated to deal with especially since one is dealing with vulnerable individuals. Professionalism demands adherence to certain boundaries that denies self-expression especially in a situation where one can help. For instance, cases involving children are usually difficult to deal with since professional work ethic demands non-involvement while the situation is dire and one feels they can help beyond what their professional guidelines are providing for. In other instances, the ‘system’ takes way too long to address an issue if the bureaucracies were removed, it would take a relatively shorter time. In these instances, as a social worker, it becomes difficult to be sympathetic or even act as the Good Samaritan, due to the professional constraints of social work.
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